Offic
SEP. 18 1844
RECEIVED
No.750
by
Ji.
1558. H
Ang hong
War Offic
282
17th Sept. 1844-
With reference to
Jer letter of the 15th Inst.
relative to sundry
Men
of the 55th. who had been allowed to volunteer into
98th Regt. with
a view
to their being employed in
the Police
in Hong Kong.
I am directed
to
acquaint you
that on List
having been obtained
it appears,
that
many
of them have served in the
Army long enough,
to entitle them
if discharged as
Invalids
to Pension,
in consequence of their Service being so long. The return
required.
By order of Sir H. Pottinger
W. Hope ...
that if there be any
Men
in the Colonial Service
at Hong Kong